The Collaborative Adaption Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) research programme co-funded by IDRC and DFID has developed a new Research into Use guide. The guide…
New CARIAA Research into Use Guide
25/07/2017
The Global Guide to Research Impact
25/07/2017
The Collaborative Adaption Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) research programme co-funded by IDRC and DFID has developed a new Research into Use guide. The guide…
05/05/2017
Guides & Tutorials
Open access is important because, simply put: if research is not accessible it will not be read. If it is not read then citations, media attention,…
26/10/2016
Guides & Tutorials
Have you ever wondered how stories start to spread across the media – or how to get your story into the loop that journalists are…
09/06/2015
Guides & Tutorials
Thought about holding a stall at a conference to present your research or to use the opportunity to network, but found the prospect too daunting…
27/10/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This guide outlines how to make the most of your policy brief, by using strategic planning and targeted engagement with policy actors, to help you achieve positive policy influence.
29/09/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Policy briefs are useful influencing tools for think tanks and research institutions. This quick guide, developed as part of the Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communications Program, is aimed at researchers and communications staff who are planning policy briefs for the first time, or want to review their approach.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
A spanish-language Publications Policy, developed by Vanesa Weyrauch for ASIES, as part of the Policy Engagement and Communication programme, has helped the think tank to roll out a consistent corporate identify across its diverse publications.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Latin American think tank ASIES has developed a guide for its staff on how to develop and implement a number of communications tools and activities concerning the institution’s visual identity.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
ASIES Facilitator Vanesa Weyrauch shares a spanish-language guide to communications policies that describes a set of tools for think tanks who participate in diverse communication practices to raise visibility of both their organisation and published research.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Developing a social network strategy is key to understanding and more effectively engaging with key audiences and making better use of social media tools. In this post, Latin American think tank ASIES shares a guide they produced to help them manage their social networks more strategically.
16/06/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Join us for our first Research to Action free Webinar! Guest speaker, Social Media Consultant Betty Paton, will be presenting on her experience managing the @DFID_Research twitter account for the Department for International Development from 2010 to 2013.
03/04/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This guide to Twitter takes you from setting up an account, through building Twitter relationships, to creating and managing lists. It also focuses on policies and procedures, style and tone-of-voice and strategic Twitter goals.
Social Media